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Piracy? We've heard numerous times what r/books thinks about it. But how does c/books view it?

“Piracy” here is used in the context of books and all sorts of manuscripts....

It'll be really hard to colonize space if everyone wants to have no children or at max 1 child

rif is working again

Old habit, I opened rif and it loads current posts! What’s going on?

How does a signing a post with a pgp key prove that you are actually the person behind the post?

I saw that people on the dark web would sign their posts with a PGP key to prove that their account has not been compromised. I think I understand the concept of how private and public keys work but I must be missing something because I don’t see how it proves anything....

Blanking on a term. I remember a protocol/firmware for wireless routers where the idea was to connect as many as possible to create a quasi internet without any ISPs. Help?

Basically title. I remember reading about it back in like 2018, I even remember a company that would provide crypto based on the amount of traffic you let through. Just curious if that ever saw any growth....

[advice] Hosting Matrix Server & Bridges

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What are some of the values or beliefs that guide or inspire you? And what brought you to them?

Apologies for asking about Instagram here but I’m stressed trying to help my brother who obsesses over things and I can’t do it, deets in body

So he wants to delete an old account due to vetting for a new job and a requirement for some reason....

Any minimalistic CLI color picker for wayland?

As title says. Been editing images quite way too much lately and I (desperately) need a color picker to speed things up. Thanks in advance.

Adding allowed instances

I recently spun up my own lemmy instance and was wondering if I had to manually add other lemmy instances to the ‘Allowed Instances’ admin field, or if they are added automatically when someone searches for a lemmy instance?

[meta] can we change the language to undefined for this community?

I tried commenting on a post, but I was unable to because of a language error. My Lemmy profile is set to undefined because if it’s set English than I apparently will be missing some posts, so I think this community should be the same way....

What is something you've done that was questionable but legal?

[Question] Accessing NAS from phone

Hi all. I recently (yesterday) set up a TrueNAS Core server from some old hardware I had lying around, and it feels great to be self-hosting!...

How to configure my transmission to automatically bring up the VPN?

I read that was highly recommend, and looked closer into the config options for transmission torrent client on Debian. I don’t see any options in that regard. Where can I find instructions?

TIL that 'HEART' is an anagram of 'EARTH'

It had never occurred to me before…

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Looking for a black owned calckey instances with federation enabled

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systemd path unit questions

Hello together. I try to use a systemd path unit, to monitor a directory structure. But as of now, I was only successful for the top level directory. The unit should be triggered, if a new file is written to either the top level of the monitored directory and also, if there is a new file in any of its subdirectories. I don’t...